{"id":835968,"date":"2021-10-01T16:59:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T20:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=835968"},"modified":"2021-10-01T16:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T20:59:18","slug":"watch-ozy-medias-embarrassing-softball-interview-with-disgraced-ex-chairman-marc-lasry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ozy-medias-embarrassing-softball-interview-with-disgraced-ex-chairman-marc-lasry\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Ozy Media\u2019s Embarrassing Softball Interview With Disgraced Ex-Chairman Marc Lasry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-ozy-medias-embarrassing-softball-interview-with-disgraced-ex-chairman-marc-lasry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=835968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ozy-main.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democrat Marc Lasry, the billionaire owner of the Milwaukee Bucks whose <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/bad-beat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleged ties<\/a> to the Russian mob scuttled his chances of being named U.S. ambassador to France under former president Barack Obama, resigned as chairman of Ozy Media on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came less than 48 hours after Lasry defended the company in a statement to the <em>New York Times<\/em>, which had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/26\/business\/media\/ozy-media-goldman-sachs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exposed<\/a> an apparent effort by Ozy executives to commit fraud by impersonating a YouTube executive in a meeting with potential investors at Goldman Sachs. &#8220;The board was made aware of the incident, and we fully support the way it was handled,&#8221; Lasry said of Ozy&#8217;s claim that the alleged fraud attempt was the result of an executive experiencing a &#8220;mental health crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire hedge fund titan quickly changed his tune, suggesting that Ozy &#8220;requires experience in areas like crisis management and investigations, where I do not have particular expertise.&#8221; He remains an investor in the company, along with Laurene Powell Jobs, the billionaire Apple widow.<\/p>\n<p>Months earlier, Lasry appeared as a guest on <em>The Carlos Watson Show<\/em>, hosted by Ozy cofounder and CEO Carlos Watson on the company&#8217;s much-vaunted YouTube channel. The billionaire and longtime Democratic fundraiser will presumably miss the opportunity to participate in such softball interviews.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to prompting Lasry to brag about his financial success and urging him to promote his 33-year-old son&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/dem-megadonors-son-launches-senate-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">candidacy<\/a> for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, the tenacious Watson also asked Lasry difficult questions about ping pong, &#8220;dreaming fearlessly,&#8221; and sexual compatibility. &#8220;There&#8217;s two types of women in this world, there&#8217;s your emotional soulmate and there&#8217;s your sexual soulmate,&#8221; Lasry revealed.<\/p>\n<p>They also discussed how to overcome failure. Lasry&#8217;s rapid departure from the dubious venture is in keeping with his own advice. &#8220;I quickly learned, don&#8217;t dwell on [mistakes] because if you do it will just eat you up,&#8221; he told Watson. Ozy is shaping up to be Lasry&#8217;s worst investment decision since the 2016 Hillary Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/billionaire-tied-to-russian-mob-to-hold-fundraiser-for-hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Powell Jobs is also no stranger to failure in the media sector. The<em> Atlantic<\/em>&nbsp;laid off nearly 20 percent of its staff and cut executive salaries in 2020, less than a year after Powell Jobs paid more than $100 million for a majority stake in the magazine. She has also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/why-is-laurene-powell-jobs-funding-fake-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funneled<\/a> money to ACRONYM, a liberal media company that operates Courier Newsroom, a collection of websites that publishes what critics have described as &#8220;partisan propaganda&#8221; disguised as local news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Marc Lasry, the billionaire owner of the Milwaukee Bucks whose alleged ties to the Russian mob scuttled his chances of being named U.S. ambassador to France under former president &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}